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Furlough #2: where we're going

Submitted by domesticat on 27 June 2009 - 12:38am

It had to happen eventually, but it took a bottle of mead and a late night and finally signing off of work to realize it.  I am going. I am really going. I have this sleep, the one that's coming for me fast even as I type this entry, and one abbreviated one more, and that is it. A little over twenty-four hours and I am gone.

I am lying on the guest bed next to a surprisingly small pile of items that must go with me. Is this all I need of life for two weeks?  Really?

I've turned off all the lights except the lava lamp, whose glow is strangely soothing, and put away my books.  (Wizards of Earthsea is for the plane, so quit dipping into it already, Amy.) I need to wind down, and sleep, and yet suddenly it is all too real and all too soon and all too horribly far away.

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Tales of the Furlough #2: temporal displacement

Submitted by domesticat on 17 June 2009 - 9:12am

Tickets are booked to Paris; tickets are booked to San Francisco.

We will be six in San Francisco, with tagalong extras depending on the day and the inclination of our local friends.  We have nebulous plans:  look for us in the cheap seats at the Giants-Astros game on July 4.  I'll be the one in the bleachers with the beer; that's all you need to find me in the crowd, right?  We'll do a night tour of Alcatraz and I'll relearn the San Francisco bus system and pictures, pictures, pictures!

A week in San Francisco.  We'll celebrate Suzan's birthday and tag along behind Asai in Chinatown.  Asai learned last night there's a temple there; amidst the touristy time and stomping all over the city, we'll probably take a few minutes for prayers. 

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Washington, DC twitterlog for Sunday, March 8, 2009

Submitted by domesticat on 9 March 2009 - 12:15am

Sunday: with Drupalcon having ended, we check out of the hotel, struggle to find food, and stagger home.

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Washington, DC twitterlog for Saturday, March 7, 2009

Submitted by domesticat on 8 March 2009 - 12:15am

Final day of Drupalcon. Documentation sprint, last lunch at Old Dominion with new friends, followed by a sprint north to Silver Spring for barbecue with David, Katie, @vulcansmuse, and the Frankenberrys.

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Washington, DC twitterlog for Thursday, March 5, 2009

Submitted by domesticat on 6 March 2009 - 12:15am

Second day of Drupalcon sessions. Beginning to think I've got the hang of this.

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